Artist Statement: I have experienced the physical and psychological changes associated with migration in America. Drawing influence from my Black heritage, land history, architecture, and found objects, my arts and social practice explores visibility, otherness, and power through a lens of critical awareness. I create work that comments on social structures and the built environment. By manipulating motifs, I investigate erasure and exposure through the use of cultural symbols. I am interested in how people and ideas are transferred from place to place and the traces that remain or are wiped away in the process. I challenge viewers to question the assumed symbolism attached to my artworks and contemplate what is visible and what is invisible.

Artist Bio: André Fuqua (b. St. Louis, MO) is a visual artist and engineer working in sculpture, photography, and public practice. His practice examines materials, place, and identity as they relate to power and perception. Fuqua’s work has been exhibited in galleries and institutions throughout the US including the Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans (New Orleans, LA), GrayDUCK Gallery (Austin, TX), Northern-Southern (Austin, TX), and the Museum of Science and Industry (Chicago, IL). He has given presentations at Washington University in St. Louis and the California Institute of Technology. Fuqua is a 2023 - 24 Corridor Construction Public Artist for the City of Austin, a two-time recipient of the Regional Arts Commission of St. Louis Artist Support Grant, and a 2021 recipient of The Luminary’s Future Funds award. He holds a BS and MS in civil engineering from Columbia University (2015, 2018) and studied painting and sculpture at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2016). Fuqua lives and works between St. Louis, MO and Austin, TX.

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